On Wednesday - my first day on fire school Pastor Ken talked to us about faith and how to grow in faith.  I was very encouraged by the message about how - even a very little mustard seed sized faith can actually move a mountain.  The message about how when we use our faith it gets bigger and that even if we start with a little bit - the deposit we all have - that faith can grow into a mountain moving type faith.

The encouragement stayed in me until it was time to actually use my faith and then I was very challenged.  I went to visit family - some of whom I hadn’t seen for a few years and when I saw the pain that my auntie is in I was moved with compassion and wanted to pray for a healing miracle there and then - I didn’t - but God was in my case still so I was burning to pray and then - at the very last moment I finally said that I would ask God for healing for them all and for our baby cousin who had been very, very ill.  The response of my Uncle wasn’t the doubtful one I’d expected but ‘That would be really nice - to be healed’.

Even though until that point I’d not had the courage to say it when I did and they accepted it I felt that tiny little bit of faith (and knew that it wasn’t enough - what if that was their day for healing?) - but I knew it grew a little bit just because I used it a little and I will grow more in faith by exercising the little faith I have.

The message of finding miracles to pray for has really hit my heart and that is what I want!

I have a deposit of faith but it will grow beyond all fear and God will do many miracles and I am excited to see it!

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